Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US #176 of 525

en_US Sir Roger L'Estrange

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Gooden, Stephen

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:25Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1936

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1936

Abstract

en_US This is an exceeding strange book. It has the basic marks of Bodemann #434.1, Gooden's classic edition of Aesop. But it lacks any Gooden illustrations beyond the excellent initials for each fable. Bodemann shows a title-page that includes a large circular portrait of Aesop; the only title-page here has merely Aesop's Fables. The publisher of the classic Gooden Aesop is Harrap in London; there is no indication of a publisher here. There is indication of a printer on the colophon page at the end of the book: Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press in 1936. That colophon also mentions the copper plates, which are not here. And it lists this as #176 of 525. I have long wanted to have a copy of Gooden's work, especially for the exquisite initials. In fact, I was long ago disappointed to learn that there are not many full-page engravings in this work. This copy on 15 lists twelve engravings including the title-page, and of course they are not here. There is the requisite AI. Viewers of this book might want to compare it with the Everyman reprint of 1992. Might the printer have made a mistake and failed to interleave Gooden's engravings, including the title-page, into this work?

Identifier

en_US 4449 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80118

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cambridge University Press? (George Harrap?)

en_US Cambridge

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 L43 1936

en_US Aesop et al

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole